Fort McHenry

About 1,500 sailors and their families moved from Hampton Roads to Florida over the weekend as the Navy seeks to better position its East Coast forces and preserve jobs at coastal shipyards. The USS Iwo Jima and the USS Fort McHenry arrived Sunday at Naval Station Mayport, near Jacksonville. This completes a three-ship transfer that was announced in 2012 and began in 2013, when the USS New York left Virginia for the waters of Mayport. The three ships make up the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, a flexible flotilla that deploys with U.S. Marines and can launch aircraft and ship-to-shore landing craft. Its sailors and Marines are equally at home in a combat zone, evacuating civilians from...

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